“The world will be made whole”: Love, Loss, and the Sacramental Imagination in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

In this article I suggest that attending to the water imagery in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping can reveal a sophisticated account of the sacraments, one that anticipates by several years important developments in recent Christian theology. I also argue that the novel seems thus to suggest...

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Main Author: Potts, Matthew L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2017]
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 3, Pages: 482-499
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
NBP Sacramentology; sacraments
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Theology
B Williams, Rowan, 1950-
B Imagination
B Love
B Marilynne Robinson
B ROBINSON, Marilynne, 1943-
B SACRAMENTS in literature
B HOUSEKEEPING (Book)
B Rowan Williams
B Sacrament
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